Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Thursday, April 26, 1956.
53rd Year, No.133
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
AUFS Speaker Talks On Guatemala
Guatemala is a training ground for politics but the people don't like a centralized government, K. T. Silvert, American University Field Staff expert on Central America, said Wednesday evening in the Student Union.
"More and more national weight in government is appearing in Guatemala and there'll be a great revolution. When that happens small revolutions will cease," he said.
Town Council Unusual
Governors in Guatemala carry out policies of administration, Mr. Silvert said. The governor, a graduate military official, rules over an area which looks like a town or small city consisting of from 500 to 17,000 persons, he said.
Town Council Unusual
The town council consists of a mayor who acts in a judicial capacity, a syndic who is a legal adviser, probably illiterate, and aldermen, he said, adding that there are police and fire-watch details composed of younger people, and at the same time a religious organization which consists of high officers and five or six persons who clean the church.
Mr. Silvert, in his speech "City Government—Guatemala Style" described the process of becoming an alderman.
When a man reaches 21 years of age he becomes a constable, a job which he holds a year, followed by a year's leave. He then works a year in the religious area, and receives another year's leave, until by alternation the man becomes mayor. This office is followed by attaining the policy-making position of alderman. Failure to serve brings social ostracism, Mr. Silvert said.
The major cause of death in Guatamala is gastro-intestinal disturbances, and the average life expectancy is 34 years. he said.
Reconstruction Is Expensive
Guatemala is a realm of earthquakes and ravines. The people attempted to escape by moving Guatemala City out of a valley in the 18th century, he said, but an earthquake leveled the city in 1917.
Construction is restricted by ravines, and a 14-story building is costly since reinforced concrete must be used, he said.
Weather
Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms east Friday. Warmer west and north this afternoon and over state tonight. Low tonight 50-55 west and north to 60-65 extreme southeast. High Friday in the 70s.
Hvpo Hop Saturday Night
Phi Chi medical fraternity will hold its annual spring formal, the Hypo Hoom, Saturday evening in the Flame Room of the Dine-A-Mite. Chaperones will be Dr. and Mrs. Harold Barrett.
Betas, Sellards Win Intramural Speech Contest
Beta Theta Pi won the men's divisions and Sellards Hall the women's division of the Forensic League intramural speaking contest Wednesday in Strong Auditorium.
First-place winners in the informative division were Donald Johnston, Pittsburgh senior, and Donna Fink, Fredonia freshman. Marshall Havenhill, Blue Springs, Mo., junior, and Wynette McCarter, Sterling, Colo. freshman, were first in the demonstrative speaking division.
The two organizations were awarded trophies by having the most representatives among the winners of the contest.
In the humorous division, Johnston won first place in the men's division. Robert Validois, Haven sophomore, Charles Ferguson, Leavenworth sophomore, and Havenhill won the next three places.
In the women's division Saundra Kellogg, Paola sophomore, won first place. Coralyn Stayton, Winfield junior, Ruth Hicklin, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and Arlene Cushing, New York, N.Y. freshman, were the other winners.
Pulchritude Evident At AWS Fashion Show
Polished cotton, silk, or linen suits and dresses for the women and polished cotton blazers, slacks, bermuda shorts, and silk or cotton suits for the men highlighted the Associated Women Students" "Caribbean Cruise" fashion show Wednesday in the Student Union Ballroom.
Long torso sleeveless dresses with full skirts in pastel shades or bright prints were shown for daytime wear along with matching blouse and skirt combinations. The cocktail dresses shown for summer wear were mainly of cotton sateen and the evening dresses, of nylon tulle.
Cotton bermuda shorts worn with sport shirts and fabric belts were suggested for the men's summer sports wear. For evening, dinner jackets of a linen weave in white and powder blue were worn with tropical weight slacks.
Bathing suits of an acetate, cotton, and elastic weave in a variety of styles and shorty pajamas completed the women's wardrobe. The men weren't forgotten; a smoke grey linen weave beach set provided their wear.
Oxnam To Give Baccalaureate Talk
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam will deliver the baccalaureate sermon for the 84th annual commencement exercises of the University at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 3 in Memorial Stadium.
Bishop Oxnam earned an A. B. from the University of Southern California and an S. T. B. from Boston University. He was ordained into the Methodist ministry in 1916.
In 1936 he was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been bishop of the Omaha area three years, the Boston area five years, and the New York area eight years. Since 1952 he has been bishop of the Washington area.
(Daily Kansan photo)
WONDER HOW I'D LOOK IN THAT ONE—One of two unidentified spectators at Wednesday night's fashion show seems *vather* shocked as Betty Kogel, Mission sophomore, models a bathing suit. Miss Kogel was one of 22 models.
'Cosi Fan Tutte' Opens Festival
The 33rd annual Fine Arts Festival will open Monday, April 30 with Mozart's comic opera, "Cosi Fan Tutte," or translated into English "All Women Are Like That." The two act opera, which will be sung in English, is a joint production of the University Theatre and the School of Fine Arts. Three performances will be given on Monday, Wednesday, May 2, and Friday, May 4. Performances will be held in Fraser Auditorium.
24 Chemistry Awards Given
Twenty-one undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry at the University of Kansas were recognized with a total of 24 awards Wednesday night at the first of an annual series of Chemistry Department Recognition Dinners at the Kansas Memorial Union.
These include cash awards and prizes in excess of $6,500 to five of them, and recognition for fellowships awarded three others.
Presented with the Du Pont Chemical Company's teaching fellowship, valued at $2,400 and fees, was Miss Patricia Reynolds, Tacoma Park, Md. graduate student. Miss Reynolds also was picked for the best laboratory instructor in the department, which carried an expensepaid trip to the American Chemical Society Meetings at Dallas, Texas, earlier in the month.
Robert McKinney, East St. Louis, Ill., and Irving Cholkofsky, Bronx, N. Y., both graduate students, received the Monsanto Chemical Co. Research Fellowship and the American Oil Co. Research Fellowship respectively, each for $1500. Effective next year, these awards are unrestricted as to use.
Hong Chien Yuan of Formosa a graduate student paying his own way, received the $300 Dow Chemical Company Award for study in the 1956 summer session.
John W. Root, Shawnee junior, received the Cook Paint and Varnish Co. award of $750 to an outstanding student beginning his senior year next year.
Recognized as National Science Foundation Fellows were three graduate students, Frank A. Newby Jr., Columbus; Angelo Santoro, Brooklyn, N. Y., and John Yang, Eudora.
Peter D. Arrowsmith, Kansas City, Mo. senior, won the 25-year-old Alpha Chi Sigma Award for excellence in scholarship, personality and integrity. Alpha Chi Sigma is an honorary chemistry and chemical engineering fraternity.
In departmental awards, Root ane Arrowsmith were among six picked by the chemistry faculty for honoring for excellence in four or more chemistry courses. Others were: John A. Davis Jr., Ottawa, and Warren L. Gay, Topeka, both sophomores; Dean L. Smith, Topeka, and Victor E. Viola Jr., Abilene, both juniors.
For general service to the department of chemistry in promoting the Chemistry Club and other student activities, were James H. McMechan, Independence, Mo. sophomore, and Daniel E. Wiley, Lawrence senior.
Departmental course awards included also James B. Smith, St Louis, Mo. junior, excellence in analytical chemistry; David A. Ontjes, chemistry; Stafford, Frederick W. Koker, Salina, engineering; and Charles M. Malone, Lawrence engineering. All are freshman.
Jimmy L. Crouch, Turner freshman for excellence in Chemistry 2E (inorganic chemistry for engineers), and Gary J. Myers, Fort Scott junior for excellence in Chemistry 2.
- Other musical events during the two week festival are the University Chorus and Orchestra in "Mass in C Minor" by Mozart, the Mozart Trio, the Young American Artist Program featuring Sylvia Rosenberg, violinist, and the University A Cappella Choir concert.
The opera has six principal characters: two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, two officers to whom they are engaged, Ferrando and Guglielmo, a cynical bachelor, Don Alfonso, and the sisters' maid, Despina, and a background chorus of 16.
Story Of Cynical Bachelor
Story Of Cynical Bachelor The story relates how the cynical bachelor derides the young officers' belief in the faithfulness of their fiances. The argument leads to a bet that the ladies could not be faithful to their absent lovers for even a day.
The young men pretend to leave on distant tours of duty, and return practically within the hour disguised as Albanian Merchants.
As usual, everything turns out well, including the bachelor's winning his bet.
They proceed to woo and win each other's sweetheart, and the marriage cermony is almost performed by a notary who is none other than the young ladies' maid in disguise.
Actor Arnold Dies At 66
Merrilyn Coleman, Frankfort junior, plays Fiordliardi, Lincoln Craft, Junction City junior, Dorabella; Sandra Keller, Lenexa senior, Despina; Richard Wright, Junction City graduate student, Ferrando; Dale Moore, Olathe graduate student, Guglielmo, and Jack Davison. Bolivar, Mo., sophomore, Don Alfonso.
Little Symphony Accompanies The Little Symphony Orchestra directed by Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts provides the musical accompaniment.
HOLLYWOOD (UP)—Actor Edward Arnold died suddenly at his home today of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 66.
Student ID cards may be exchanged for tickets at the theater ticket office in the basement of Green Hall.
Mr. Arnold, the "Mr. President" of radio and television, had had no previous illness and was in good health.
The actor was born Guenther Schneider in a New York tenement. He was schooled at the East Side Settlement House. In an amateur performance there he played Lorenzo in "The Merchant of Venice" so well he won the approval of John D. Barry, director of the Dramatic Club and instructor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Mr. Arnold toured the country with the Ben Greet Shakespearean Players. After several other stage roles and positions with the theater he appeared as a juvenile with Ethel Barrymore for three successive seasons.
(Mr. Arnold was scheduled to appear at the University Nov. 1, 1955, in a reading of Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," but the engagement was cancelled when Mr. Arnold injured his leg.)